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I get "...feature appears to be broken..." every time I start Word (Home and Student 2021). I have tried all the remedies I've found for other versions of Office, including: (a) repairing MS Office Home and Student 2021; (b) running in Safe Mode; (c) deleting Normal.dotm; (d) disabling add-ins; and (e) uninstalling and re-installing from a newly downloaded copy of the program. I'm not seeing anything that doesn't seem to be working. It's just annoying that I get this message over and over. Any ideas what the fix might be? Thanks.
Are you doing something specific when you see the error message? Or do you see the message simply when starting Word?
Thanks for asking. I just solved the problem, though I'm not sure why it was there. I discovered that I had the 32 bit version running on my 64 bit Windows. After uninstalling the 32 bit version and installing the 64 bit one, the message is no longer popping up.
Thanks for asking. I just solved the problem, though I'm not sure why it was there. I discovered that I had the 32 bit version running on my 64 bit Windows. After uninstalling the 32 bit version and installing the 64 bit one, the message is no longer popping up.
Thanks for the follow-up. On 64 bit Windows, you should be able to run either 32 bit or 64 bit Office, so the problem might have been with an add-in of some type, assuming that the add-in requires 64 bit Office.